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I was a reporter and columnist for 40 years for a chain of newspapers in the suburbs of Chicago. I'm a military veteran having served in the United States Army Combat Engineers (Cpl. E-4) and a Korean War veteran with an Honorable Discharge from the Armed Forces of the United States of America

Saturday, December 27, 2008

As the narrator of this video says, the images of civilians and mostly children killed during the IRAQ war is not for school or work, but instead should be viewed in private and then only by people who have the stomach for the grisly carnage on this video.The United States invaded and occupied IRAQ over five years ago. Since then there are estimates that go as high as ONE MILLION Iraqis have been killed---many of them small children and infants. President Bush and Vice President Cheney sold the American public a "bill of goods" that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction and that he was in the process of building a nuclear bomb.BOTH PROVED TO BE FALSE AND MISLEADING INFORMATION. Nearly 4,300 brave young American men and women have lost their lives in Bush and Cheney's gambit to bring democracy to IRAQ. In addition, over 30,000 young Americans have been severely injured in the IRAQ WAR and many of them will be disabled for the rest of thei lives. The fragile IRAQ government has drawn up a pact withthe United Statesthat will call for all U.S. COMBAT troops to leave IRAQ in the next few months.This is the first time in the history of the UNITED STATES that a foreign country has dictated to the UNITED STATES MILITARY and our government on what U.S. troops are allowed to do and who can stay and who has to go. President-elect Barack Obama is inheriting a quagmire that could keep U.S. troops in Iraq for the next ten or 20 years. Over the weekend, a mortar shell killed a prominent U.S. doctor from New Jersey in Mosul, and a car bomb at a bus station in Baghdad killed at least 22 and injured scores of others.IRAQ is not the peaceful country the media tells the people of the United States.The IRAQI people want ALL U.S. troops out of Iraq and the shoe throwing incident when an Arabic TV reporter tossed his shoes at President Bush in Baghdad two weeks ago is a clear indication how much the United States is hated in Iraq and all across the Middle East. The shoe thrower is being hailed as a hero by the Iraqi people. Watch this video, but we warn you the images of civilian casualties, especially the children and infants of IRAQ will tear your heart out. Commentary by BILL CORCORAN, editor, CORKSPHERE.WATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/Im7hC6ny4fs&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

This VIDEO is very graphic and intense as the U.S. military in "choppers" take out the TALIBAN in AFGHANISTAN. You get to see the action and hear the communication between the command post and the helicopter as it levels a group of TALIBAN fighters.WATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/pDjA4h_Q1HI&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

This VIDEO showing U.S. troops in battle with the Taliban was made just one week ago in AFGHANISTAN The battle footage is very intense and the music provides an excellent background to this video.The U.S. Military have their hands full fighting the resurging Taliban in Afghanistan.The word out of the Pentagon is 30,000 more U.S. troops will be deployed to AFGHANISTAN next summer. WATCH VIDEO HEREhttp://www.youtube.com/v/GyekO4EGRJ0&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

BAGHDAD: The U.S. military says a bomb killed at least 18 people and wounded 25 in a busy Baghdad square.

Initial Iraqi police reports of the blast Saturday at al-Zahra square in the northern Baghdad Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah, said it was a mortar round. But three Iraqi police officers later said it was a parked car bomb, apparently targeting a taxi stand.

U.S. Army Capt. Charles Calios says initial military reports indicate it was a car bomb.

TRENTON, N.J. - A prominent New Jersey doctor has been killed in Iraq, the Defense Department said Friday.

Maj. John P. Pryor was a well-known trauma surgeon at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. According to the Pentagon, Pryor died Christmas Day when a mortar round hit near his living quarters.

Pryor's colleagues say they're devastated by the loss of the New York City native. Pryor, who was 42, was a married father of three.

He wrote of his experiences as a surgeon confronting violence in Iraq and inner-city Philadelphia in articles published in The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Washington Post.